It’s by no means a bad piece of design, the MKC. But in its continuing efforts to set Lincoln apart and make it a true Luxury brand, it strikes us that the team behind the MKC small SUV concept being shown here in Detroit, might have been looking a little too hard at the Audi Q5

It’s always interesting catching designers checking out other brands’ products and so bumping into the ever-affable Adrian van Hooydonk, BMW Group’s design chief on the Lexus stand I was keen to know what he thought of the LF-LC concept

While Minivans/MPVs have continued to fall in popularity, and a question mark hangs over the future of the Renault’s breed-defining Espace, Chrysler’s 700C suggests that the company thinks there is plenty of life left in this segment